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name: "E. Max Frye"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/e-max-frye"
fi1m_id: "e-max-frye"
imdb_id: "nm0296861"
tmdb_id: 68928
wikidata_id: "Q5322060"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-17T15:42:25.829995+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# E. Max Frye

## Identity

E. Max Frye

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/e-max-frye
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** e-max-frye
- **IMDb ID:** nm0296861
- **TMDB ID:** 68928
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5322060
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Max_Frye, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5322060, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296861/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68928

Writer. Born 1 January 1956 in Oregon, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1956, Oregon, USA
- **Active:** 1986–2014
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as writer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 82 (1), 2000s 82 (2), 2010s 82 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 82 to 74 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 2, Thriller 2, Comedy 1, Romance 1, Sport 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $44m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Max_Frye, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5322060, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296861/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68928

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Band of Brothers*](https://film.one/tv/band-of-brothers.md) (89)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Foxcatcher*](https://film.one/film/foxcatcher.md) (82)
- **Apple TV:** [*Something Wild*](https://film.one/film/something-wild.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

E. Max Frye is an American screenwriter, film director and television producer. Born in 1956 in Oregon and raised in Eugene, he attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland for one year before moving to Europe, where he lived in Paris and worked as a model in Austria. He later studied at New York University Film School.

Frye wrote the screenplay for *Something Wild* (1986). He wrote and directed the comedy *Amos & Andrew* (1993). Other credits include screenplays for *Palmetto* (1998) and *Where the Money Is* (2000), and he was one of the writers on the HBO miniseries *Band of Brothers* (2001), contributing to the episode 'Carentan'. He co-wrote *Foxcatcher* (2014) and wrote teleplays for *The Alienist* (2018).

Frye received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for *Foxcatcher*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Foxcatcher* (2014), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/foxcatcher.md)
- *Dogville* (2003), Fi1m 74, Script Consultant — [page](https://film.one/film/dogville.md)
- *Band of Brothers* (2001), Fi1m 89, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/band-of-brothers.md)
- *Something Wild* (1986), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/something-wild.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Alienist* (2018), series, Executive Producer, Teleplay
- *Foxcatcher* (2014), Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/foxcatcher.md)
- *Second Nature* (2003), Writer
- *Dogville* (2003), Script Consultant — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/dogville.md)
- *Ten Minutes Older: The Cello* (2002), Screenplay
- *Band of Brothers* (2001), series, Writer — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/tv/band-of-brothers.md)
- *Where the Money Is* (2000), Screenplay, Story
- *Palmetto* (1998), Screenplay
- *Amos & Andrew* (1993), Writer, Director
- *Arena Brains* (1987), as Man in Hotel Room · Writer
- *Something Wild* (1986), Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/something-wild.md)
- *Bizarre Love Triangle* (1986), as Man
- *Gilded Rage*, Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2015: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Foxcatcher*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Edgar Awards 1987: Edgar Awards (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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